Links for the Week of March 5, 2017
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- Nick Crafts: Whither Economic Growth?: "Only yesterday... the so-called new economy was ascendant...
- Heather Boushey: The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline: "Peter Temin’s... The Vanishing Middle Class.... argues that the distribution of gains from economic growth today...
- Jared Bernstein: Inflation?! We ain’t got no stinkin’ inflation!: "The core PCE deflator rose at an annual rate of only 1.2 percent in 2016Q4...
- Simon Wren-Lewis: A Self-Fulfilling Expectations-Led Recession?: "I acknowledge that macro rightly got a lot of stick by largely ignoring the role of finance...
Most-Recent Should-Reads:
- Jared Bernstein: Clashing with the Fed: Should they stay or should they go?: "Should the Fed raise their benchmark interest rate at their meeting later this month?...
- Jonathan Chait: Obamacare-Repealer Explains Poor Don’t Want to be Healthy: "Representative Roger Marshall is a Kansas Republican...
Most-Recent Links:
- Zeng Guofan | Li Hongzhang | Zuo Zongtang | Tongzhi Restoration
- Takashi Negishi (根岸隆)
- Jason Kottke: A neuroscientist explains a concept at five different levels
- Harald Felgner: The Tweeted Times
- Cosma Shalizi (2012): In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
- John Maynard Keynes (1938): John Maynard Keynes’s Private Letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt of February 1, 1938
MOAR Should-Reads:
- Kevin Drum: WSJ: Republicans Give Up, Admit They Can't Create a Non-Appalling Health Care Plan: "There you have it...
- Sarah Perry: The History of Fertility Transitions and the New Memeplex: "European cultures have historically prevented people from restricting family size within marriage...
- Rod Dreher: Life In ‘The City Of Rod’][]: "More [from Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig]...:
- (1941): Keynes on the Limits of Econometrics: To Koopmans: "Many thanks for sending me your article. I enjoyed it very much...
- Richard Lipsey: The Phillips Curve and an Assumed Unique Macroeconomic Equilibrium in Historical Context: "So we seem to have gone full circle from the early Keynesian view...
- Clare McCann: The False Promises of Online Education: "Caroline Hoxby found that online education may not be the 'low-cost, high-quality' opportunity many say it is...
MOAR Links:
- David Anderson: 218 in the House: "Harris Meyer: 'Source said Rs will hold hands and jump off the cliff, someone called it the Thelma and Louise plan...'"
- Gavyn Davies: Whatever happened to secular stagnation?
- Olivier Blanchard: Self-fulfilling pessimism
- Kathleen Hays et al.: Economic Policy
- Eduardo Porter: Shaky Jobs, Sluggish Wages: Reasons Are at Home
- Wikipedia: Four Horsemen (Supreme Court)
- John Maynard Keynes (1932): The Mammon of Unrighteousness
- 2013: The Hoover Administration Was "Liquidationist"; Hoover Himself Was Merely Anti-Keynesian
- Julian Day: Alexander Nevsky (or the Russians are coming!!)
- Max Weber: Only If One Takes the Semblance of Peace for Its Reality Can One Believe that Peace and Prosperity Will Emerge
- Jason Kottke: OJ: Made in America is about more than just OJ
- Sarah McBride: Why It’s So Hard to Build the Next Silicon Valley: Google brought its high-speed internet to Kansas City, but it didn’t turn the city into a tech paradise.
- Mark Thoma: The Real Test for the Republican Health Care Plan: "The real test will be how the proposal affects people who cannot afford health insurance. Will they be helped or hurt? The answer seems preordained..."
- Douglas L. Campbell and Ju Hyun Pyun (2015): The Diffusion of Development: Along Genetic or Geographic Lines?
